J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.
1987 Apr;28(2):477-482.
A Case of Congenital Anophthalmos
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Pusan Paik Hospital, Inje College, Pusan, Korea.
Abstract
- Anophthalmos is a complete absence of the tissues of the eye. Embryologically, anophthalmos denotes those cases wherein there is complete failure in the outgrowth of the primary optic vesicle. When essential structures of the eye are present, the aonormality is microphthalmos, no matter how small the eye may be. Clinical anophthalmos represents the majority of cases in which the eye appears to be absent. Congenital anophthalmos is one of the rare ophthalmic anomalies, only 5 cases were reported in Korea and about 100 cases in the world. We report this case with a brief review of literatures.
